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Artmaking As Intervention in Oral History Methodology: Painting Portraits of Queer/Trans South Asian Chosen Family

October 23, 2025November 3, 2025 ohma

In this thesis, interdisciplinary artist and oral historian Ananya Garg proposes artmaking, through her series of 100 oil-painted vignettes, as an intervention into family oral history methodology. Her collection of […]

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RE-ROOTING ORALITY: ON PLANT ORAL HISTORIES IN PAREDONES, MICHOACAN, MEXICO

July 3, 2025 ohma

Clarissa Shane The oral transmission of plant knowledge particularly their medicinal usages enriches relations to the land. How can plants/nonhuman be recognized for their ‘personhood’? Respect for the nonhuman is […]

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Voices from Wupatki: An Oral History Excercise in Decolonization and Indigenization

July 3, 2025 ohma

Florencia Ruiz Mendoza American history and its foundational myths will only be completed if we include Indigenous history in our historical and foundational narrative. The Wupatki pueblos of Arizona tell […]

Interactive Exhibits

Runa Simita Yuyarispa, Runa Simipi Kausaspa

November 1, 2023July 9, 2024 ohma

Runa Simita Yuyarispa, Runa Simipi Kausaspa Natalie Naranjo-Morett Explore this oral history project and virtual exhibit that centers on how collaboration with the local communities from the Andean region allows […]

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COLLAPSING TIME: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND THE ‘EVERYWHEN’

March 9, 2023 ohma

COLLAPSING TIME: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND THE ‘EVERYWHEN’ Bronte Gosper Too often, Indigenous voices encounter over-mystification, Indigenous testimonies are romanticized, and the ever-nodding head of (often well-meaning) non-indigenous listeners belabours our […]

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